Very interesting, I like what is being said about how if the balrog had wings it would be impossible to fly inside of Moria. However think for a moment.
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I don't think a Balrog could fly otherwise he wouldn't have walked during his battle against gandalf.
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Consider the fact that Gandalf was in the form of a teeny 2 footed humanoid that couldn't fly. The balrog has seen that Gandalf is pretty effective in blocking his spells and vice versa (i.e. the bridge of Khazad Dum and the great doorway) and his only weapons are a big sword and a flaming whip. Even if the balrog could fly I would say it would be pretty dumb to just fly around while there's an enemy on the ground that you can only engage in close combat who you need to get rid of.
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why didn't the ones Ecthelion and Glorfindel destroy fly away. Both of them fell to their death, outdoor. Why couldn't they fly away?
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With a terrible cry the Balrog fell forward, and its shadow plunged down, and vanished.
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the one in Moria falls and doesn't advantage himself. And there are other descriptions of balrogs falling to their deaths.
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I'm not sure any of you have ever seen this sight but this would explain your questions. Say a bird, a pidgion for example is flying along when suddenly a hunting falcon, like a lightning bolt hits it from behind and the pidgion defeated, overwhelmed and completely disabled plummets to the ground below. If I asked you right there "now why couldn't the pidgeon have used it's wings to save it's self and fly away" you would laugh and call me crazy! the thing is in all those instanses where the balrogs fell to their deaths they were already overwhelmed and to weak to do anything else other than to face thier already inevitable deaths. And considering the situation on the bridge of Khazad Dum, there had been a power play there, and when Gandalf prevailed he only did so by breaking his staff and the bridge consider that the balrog would have also been exerting alot of power and the sudden snapping of that power would have put him into shock (Thus the great cry). I still haven't heard anything that would completly convince me to either side but I just wanted to clear out some messed up arguments (no offense).
I wonder if dragons had a poisonous bites.
I wonder what other powers the Nazgul had besides those described in LOTR.
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